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SEED-PLANTER OR FERTILIZER=DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,890, dated January2, 1894.

Application filedJune 30, 1893. Serial 110.479.2295. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEssE RUTLEDGE HUN- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Griffimin the county of Spalding and State ofGeorgia,have invented a new and useful Oombined Planter andFertilizer-Distributer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combined planters andfertilizer-distributers, the objects in view being the provision of amachine of this class designed to operate effectually either as aplanter or fertilizer-distributer, the same being of cheap, simple, anddurable construction, whose discharge may be regulated as maybe desiredand which in operation shall keep up a constant flow of seed orfertilizing-agent and deposit the same in a furrow formed by themachine, and subsequently close the furrow, all in one continuousunbroken operation.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combinedplanter and fertilizer-distributor constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through thehopper. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the discharge-shoe and itsagitating-mechanism. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional viewthrough the hopper and shoe.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

I employ in my invention the usual beams 1 at the rear ends of which arefixed the diverging inclined handle-bars 2. A cast-metal block 3 has itsupper side recessed or bifurcated as at 4 to engage with the under sideof and embrace the beam near its front end. The block is retained inposition through the medium of a vertical bolt 6 passed therethrough andthrough the beam. The under side of the block is bifurcated and itsopposite walls are provided with bearings, which accommodate atransverse shaft or axle 8. A flat spring 9 is bolted to the under sideof the beam and curved downward and rearward terminating at its rear endunder the axle 8 for the purpose of aiding in the support of the sameand retaining it snugly in the upper portions of the bearings 7, thuspreventing any looseness that may be occasioned by wear. The axle 8extends beyond one side of the block and accommodates a ground-wheel 10.The axle projects beyond the outer side of the ground-wheel 10, and abearing-strap 11 is bolted to the side or face of the beam 1, is curvedoutward in front and to the side of the wheel, and terminates in abearing for the accommodation of the outer end of the axle. The spokesof the wheel 10 are at op posite sides provided with duplicate series oflugs or projections 13.

A bifurcated goose-neck standard 14: embraces the opposite faces orsides of the beam 1 near the rear end thereof, the said bifurcationshaving their front ends terminating in heads, each provided with aseries of perforations for the accommodation of a bolt 15. A single bolt16 passes through the bifurcations at their curved portions and throughthe beam and serves as a means of pivoting the bifurcations to the beam.It will be seen that by an adjustment of the bolt 15 the standard may bedisposed at any desired angle so as to adapt the furrow-opening shovel17 carried thereby to form a deep or shallow furrow as may be desired. Apair of covering-shovels or blades 18 embrace the standard 14 and aresecured adjustably thereto by means of a bolt 19 which extends betweenthe bifurcations of the standard, and through the front portion of thecovering-blades and a rear clip-plate 20.

A pair of standards 21 have their lower ends notched, are located atopposite sides of the beam 1 and between it and the bifurcations of thestandard 1 1, the lower notched ends of said standards resting on thebolt 16, whereby they are capable of oscillation. The upper ends of thestandards 21 are pivoted as at 22 to intermediate portions of a pair ofhorizontal straps or bars 23, whose front ends are connected byatransverse bolt 24 and whose rear ends are slotted as at 25 and adjustably connected with the inner sides of the handlebars 2 by means ofbolts 26.

Supported between the bars 23, the bolt 24, and the standards 21 is thehopper 27, the same being secured in position by means of the bolts 22which pass through the standards 21, bars 23, and walls of the'hopper.

Below the hopper there is pivoted by means of bolts 28 avibratory shoe29, the same having a general U-shape in cross-section and terminatingat its rear end in a discharge mouth. The front wall of the shoe ispreferably a wooden block 30 which is located in advance of the frontwall of the hopper, and there is secured to the said block a metal plate31. This plate 31 is provided with a slot 32 and an adjusting bolt orscrew 33 passes through. the slot and into" the block, whereby as willbe obvious the plate may be raised and lowered upon the bolt and securedat any point desired. The opposite sides of the plate 31 are providedwith recesses or notches 34, and the same receive opposite bars 35 thatembrace the shoe and are pivoted by the bolts 28. The front ends of thebars 35 converge and meet at one side of the beam 1 adjacent to the rimof the wheel and have pivoted therebetween by a bolt 36 a clip-arm 37,whose rear end is laterally projected so as to contact with or cross oneof the adjacent bars 35, and whose front end is downwardly bent andprovided with a wear-shoe or block 39, which is arranged in the path ofthe trip-lugs ortappets 13. Secured to the interior of the front wall ofthe hopper is a curved blade or plate 40, the lower end of which takesin the shoe and passes through the open bottom of the hopper. This plateis of spring-metal,

and besides forming a guide for the grain,

serves to give the shoe a sudden impetus in its return movement so as toinsure a prompt dlscharge of the grain.

Secured to the rear end of the beam 1 is a discharge-spout 41, the sameextending down to a point in rear of the furrow-opening shovel and inadvance of the covering-blades, the upper end or mouth of the dischargebeing flared and designed to receive seed and fertilizer as the same aredropped from the rear end or discharge mouth of the shoe. The rear sideor wall of the discharge-spout it will be seen is crimped verticallysothat the stream of fertilizer or seed is divided during its passagetherethrough;

To the rear side of the hopper immediately above the shoe a verticallymovable cut-01f plate 43 is located, the same being provided with anintermediate vertical slot 45, through which a set-screw 46 takes.

In operation the vertical cut-off is of course adjusted and also thenotched plate at the front of the shoe, and in accordance with thelatter will the shoe be vibrated, that is to say, by lowering the platethe vibrations of the shoe will be increased and by raising the platethey will be decreased or made lighter. This may also be effected bymeans of the movable straps or bars 23, they being slotted at their rearends so that it will be obvious the standards 21, together with theshoe, hopper, and straps 23 may move forward or backward so as to exposemore or less surface of the block 39 to the action of the tappets. Aninclined finger or guard 47 is secured to the beam 1 in rear of theblock 3, the said guard curving inward under the beam toward the wheeland being designed to prevent the same becoming entangled in stalks,85c.

By reason of the wheel being provided with tappets on each side andbeing removably mounted it may be reversed so as to brlng either set oftappets in position. Thus when one set wears out the others may beemployed.

It will be seen that either fertilizer or-seed may be dropped from themachine, and 1n either instance the operation is the same. The wheelrevolving through the medium of the trip-arm vibrates the shoe and feedsin predetermined quantities the fertillzer or seed, the same beingdropped in the middle of the furrow formed by the advance shovels, andsubsequently covered by the blades that follow.

I do not limit my invention to the precise details of constructionherein shown and described, but hold that I may vary the same to anydegree and extent within the knowledge of the skilled mechanic.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a machine of theclass described, the combination with the beam, hopper, dischargingdevices, and a ground-wheel arranged at one side of the beam, of aninclined guard located at the opposite side of the-beam and disposedunder the same and toward thewheel, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with the beam,the bifurcated block located upon the under side of and se curedthereto, a transverse axle extend ng through and beyond one side of theblock, the wheel carried by the axle, of the flat spring secured to theunder side of the beam and bearing against the under side of the axle,and the metal bearing-strap secured to the outer side of the beam, bentaround the wheel, and terminating in a bearing for the outer end of theaxle and planting mechanlsm carried by the beam,substantiallyasspecified.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with the beam,the ground wheel having tappets, the vertical pivoted standards 21, theside bars 23 connected between thelr ends to the upper ends of thestandards and to an intermediate hopper and having thelr rear endsslotted, of handle-bars extending upward from the beam, bolts passedthrough the same and through the slots of the bars 23, a vibratory shoearranged below the hopper and pivoted to the standards 21, and an armconnected thereto and extending into the path of the tappets of thewheel, substantially as specified.

t. In a machine of the class described, the combination with the beam,the vertical standard pivoted thereon, the hopper supported thereby, ashoe arranged below the hopper and pivoted between the standards, anotched plate slotted and arranged at the front end of the shoe, anadjusting-bolt passed through the slot and into the front wall of theshoe, of a pair of bars located in the notches of the plate and pivotedat their rear ends to the standard, a curved trip-arm pivoted betweenthe front ends of the bars and deflected at one side to overlap one ofthe same and carrying at its front end a wear-shoe arranged in the pathof the tappets, substantially as specified.

5. In a machine of the class described, the I combination with the beam,the hopper, and the shoe pivoted below the hopper, of means

